Embarking on a 4-day investigation of the city of Tokyo, I used the same map to take me on a journey from each of the 29 stations on the Yamanote line. Straight across, turn right, turn left, turn right again and it’s somewhere on the left just up here. I can see the grid of lines and the square of the target destination even now.

Although each journey was the same as rendered by the map, what I experienced on the ground was profoundly different in each case. Scale became elastic; angles distorted; and rivers appeared to bisect my path.

The exact location of the destination was intuitive… and often indisputable. The trick is to learn how to look again.

Other times you just have to learn how to stop looking so hard – it’s right there in front of you.

Each of the 29 journeys is documented via railway tickets, photographs and my own anecdotal recollection of the event.

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